Sentences with phrase «apportioned voting»

Historically, the Republican Party has been strongest in upstate New York where, until the 1970s, the state constitution apportioned voting districts «in such a manner that allowed more votes to be cast per voting district.»

A unanimous court declared that Texas was permitted to apportion voting districts by population — including the undocumented.

Not exact matches

The standard arrangement for apportioning control is «one share, one vote.»

This will enable effectively proportional representation (where the number of representatives from each party approximately represents the votes that they got, but is not apportioned that way).

Scenario: Electoral votes are apportioned according to the popular vote, with the winner getting the «round up.»

But the broader state committee — some of whose members are supporting Senator John McCain and Rudy Giuliani in the presidential primary — rejected it, 31 to 17, this week, saying it was unfair and that delegates should be apportioned based on the share of the vote each candidate wins.

It is no accident that in international bodies like the European Union, votes are apportioned according to population size.

The President, House and Senate are all chosen in different time intervals, with votes apportioned differently.

«Ultimately, if the war in Syria extends as a conflagration, there are more terrorist atrocities and the war extends with no end, then we will obviously be looking at who voted for this, and when the blame is apportioned, step forward,» he said.

He added: «Ultimately, if the war in Syria extends as a conflagration, there are more terrorist atrocities and the war extends with no end, then we will obviously be looking at who voted for this, and when the blame is apportioned, step forward.»

First preference votes need to be filtered through the system of Irish electoral constituencies (and the different numbers of seats that are apportioned to these).

On the side of Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo, he takes the second lead after John Dramani Mahama but has the parliamentary candidates being voted for on behalf of his party using the percentage of support of Ghanaians apportioned for Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo as elucidated below.

Before apportioning list seats, all list votes for parties which failed to reach the minimum threshold are discarded.

Table 2 (a): Number of electoral college votes that would have been won by each candidate if these had been apportioned proportionally (PrEV), as contrasted with the number won by each candidate in the actual election («winner takes all» /» first past the post»).

Mrs. Clinton is also pouring money into two congressional districts, in Nebraska and Maine, that both apportion their own presidential electoral vote and have competitive House races.

Thirty - four will be apportioned on a statewide basis — all would go to the winning candidate if he secures more than 50 percent of the popular vote in New York.

Although elections to the US House of Representatives use a first - past - the - post voting system, the constitution requires that seats be «apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers» — that is, divvied up proportionally.

This sounds suspiciously like the way votes were apportioned in the US in the 1950s, before the Warren Court decided «One man, one vote.»

Republican state legislators in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia are attempting to change state election rules so as to apportion electoral college votes to counties rather than the entire state.